Boucardicus is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Hainesiidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Boucardicus Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995564 on 2021-06-20
It is endemic to Madagascar, consist 199 species and 5 subspecies.Balashov I. & Griffiths O. (2015). "Two new species of minute land snails from Madagascar: Boucardicus monchenkoi sp. nov. and B. ambindaensis sp. nov. (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae)". Zootaxa. 4052(2): 237-240. Type species is Boucardicus notabilis (Smith, 1892). Included species are very diverse, some species are medium-sized (about 10 mm) with conical shell, some are small (height 1.5-3.5 mm) with cylindrical "pupilloid-like" shell.
Species Species within the genus Boucardicus include: Boucardicus notabilis (type species) Boucardicus albocinctus Boucardicus ambindaensis Boucardicus antiquus Boucardicus carylae Boucardicus culminans Boucardicus curvifolius Boucardicus delicatus Boucardicus divei Boucardicus esetrae Boucardicus fidimananai Boucardicus fortistriatus Boucardicus goudoti (Fischer-Piette & Bedoucha, 1965) Boucardicus magnilobatus Boucardicus mahermanae Boucardicus monchenkoi Boucardicus rakotoarisoni Boucardicus randalanai Boucardicus simplex Boucardicus tridentatus Boucardicus victorhernandezi Boucardicus anjaraeEmberton K C., Slapcinsky J., Campbell C. A., Rakotondrazafy J. A., Andriamiarison T. N. & Emberton J. D. (2010). "Terrestrial mollusks of Andriantantely Massif, Eastern Madagascar, with descriptions of 36 new species (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda; Pulmonata)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 71-141. Boucardicus avo Boucardicus hetra Boucardicus lalinify Boucardicus mahavariana Boucardicus matoatoa Boucardicus menoi Boucardicus peggyae Boucardicus pulchellus Boucardicus tantelyae
References
Emberton, K. C. (2002). The genus Boucardicus, a Madagascan endemic (Gastropoda: Cyclophoridae: Alycaeinae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 130 (1-2): 1-199, 35 plates. Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
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